Degrees of Freedom

A higher ed alternative for low-income students

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A higher ed alternative for low-income students

4 followers

Degrees of Freedom offers a high-quality, low-cost degree by blending the virtual and traditional college model. Our students learn on-campus, on-line, and in VR from diverse Ivy League professors and master teachers — all at a community college price.

Launch tags:Virtual Reality•Education•Diversity & Inclusion

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@chandell_stone1 Anti-oppressive pedagogy inherently seeks to transform material and social conditions for self-determination. I find that this program (unintentionally?) maintains oppression by excluding the theory and practice of liberation from the same oppressive social constructs that indenture communities of which the program reintegrates students into. Nowhere in the Anti-Oppressive statement does it mention capitalism, why not? As an educator, critical pedagogy is essential to realizing that career paths versus developing local worker self-managed workplaces (Wolff) are many degrees of freedom away from each other. Students stand to benefit more by learning how to cooperate, unify, organize, and synthesize culturally to overcome the temporary chains of oppression which capitalism binds us to (learning to destroy the system). Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, p.45: True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life," to extend their trembling hands. True generosity lies in striving so that these hands—whether of individuals or entire peoples—need be extended less and less in supplication, so that more and more they become human hands which work and, working, transform the world.

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5yr ago

Degrees of Freedom

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@ravi_bajnath love your investment in our project. We are quite familiar with Freire's work and many of the components that you named are captured in our design.

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In many countries, $9K / year would be considered outrageously expensive and not “for low-income students”

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5yr ago

And I’m sitting here with 6 figures of debt thinking that is a steal. Its all about the audience you’re serving

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5yr ago

Degrees of Freedom

Maker

@cenk actually the federal government provides low-income students with up to 9k per year to apply towards their tuition, so it is essentially free for students with $0 EFC

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Citationsy

@chandell_stone1 Did not know that, thank you!

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